CESDA embarks on community sensitization on imbibition of good hygiene

CESDA embarks on community sensitization on imbibition of good hygiene

Ernest Ogezi

The Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Development Awareness, CESDA, embarked on a massive community-based sensitization in Kado-Lifecamp area of the Federal Capitla Territory that highlighted the nexus between good sanitation and the health and well-being of the populace. This intervention was sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.

CESDA Executive Director, Comrade Sola Babalola led the team to have a well-coordinated focus group discussion with community members, stakeholders and environmental actors in the area at the Palace of Dakachin Kado-Lifecamp HRH Chief Danlami Audu.

Community leaders and the youth alike were all on ground to receive lectures and proffer solutions to the endemic waste management issues that have plagued the settlement. Community people were advised against open defecation and indiscriminate dumping of refuse along the wat, which further defaces the FCT and causes latent health hazards to a multiplicity of Kado-Lifecamp residents and settlers alike.

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Also speaking at the event was Mrs Rachael Omenta, Chief Environmental Officer of Abuja Environmental Protection Board. She advised residents to ensure that follow the sanitation rule which has been officially fixed for the last Saturday of every month. She advised the people of the community to make sanitary hygiene practices a way of life and to organize themselves into sanitation groups for the improvement of the environment and their health.

She also asked the members of the community to be proactive especially when it comes to matters of emptying public refuse disposal sites. To drive home her point and indicate her commitment to ensuring cleanliness of the area, the AEPB officer gave the community her personal phone number and asked that they should alert her immediately the public disposal site is filled.

CESDA’s motorcade rally and awareness creation over a public address system continued to the Fish Market and the Motor park including one-on-one discourses with residents and concerned citizens of the FCT.

Kado-Lifecamp is an extremely important area in the FCT, housing the popular Kado fish market that serves millions of residents of the FCT on a daily basis. CESDA put these into consideration when it embarked on this sensitization campaign. The Life Camp Motor Park is also one of the busiest parks in Abuja, if the hygiene of the area is not wholesome, and an epidemic were to emerge, it will put the entire FCT in grave danger.

CESDA embarks on community sensitization on imbibition of good hygiene